A tiny Bonfire feature that we’ve grown quite fond of 🌱

Instance admins can define their own set of default avatars, which are randomly assigned to people who haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet.

It sounds like a very small thing and technically, it is.

But after experimenting with it on the Jacobin community, we noticed how much these little details can contribute to giving an instance its own visual identity and fostering a sense of belonging to a shared digital place.

Not every feature that shapes a community needs to be big. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of tiny avatars 😊

Read more about our work with Jacobin in our case study: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

Have you heard about @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe 's #telling #widget?

It is a widget for adding a #fedi comment system to your website (including #WordPress #Drupal... but also #SSG and plain html websites!)

It is also on my top-10 #bonfire features' yet

You can read more about it here: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/

@Cory Doctorow

I also turned 55 – and my radiologist told me I'm now cancer-free, so it's been a good summer all around.

Today is announcement day 🔥

Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

1. Bonfire for communities
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.

A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.

2. Our first Mosaic case study
Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

3. A deep Ghost integration
Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/

4. The Telling
One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/

Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.

Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe

Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/

Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛 #fediverse #ActivityPub

Why is Moana called Vaiana in Germany?

@twm I believe this might be by design ( @mayel may correct me if I'm wrong). At this stage, signups are by invitation only, and IMHO, it makes sense that it is not possible to create an account simply by using ORCID's API.

I'm not so sure what to expect if the signup was open, though. Creating an account with your orcid number instead of using your email may be interesting, but I do not know if having an email would be better if you want to receive notifications (by the way, I don't receive any, which makes me wonder if we have the configured well the smpt server or bonfire is very respectful in that matter -I would not be surprised about this) or reset password.

What is really cool, though, is that you can definitely sign in with orcid, and how it populates some data into your profile.

@meta When I tried to sign up only using my ORCID I got a 'something went wrong' error message from the instance. But when I signed up with my email and clicked on add ORCID everything worked instantly (as I had already granted the permissions to the instance).

I'm sharing a #publication I authored about the #fediverse to see how DOI integration works: 10.1177/14614448251358846

Welcome to CIM's #bonfire instance! We are currently using the #openscience openscience.network/ flavour, which has some features that are relevant to #academics. Feel free to test it and share your thoughts here!